Back at Tokyo Game Show in 2011, Vinnk and Sean reviewed the AppBlaster iPhone peripheral and the game Ghost Catcher. Flash forward 10 months, and Vinnk runs into a shelf full of them while out shopping in Japan.

Sean and Vinnk demonstrate some tricks with the GameCube System Menu -- a couple of which have been known since the system launched (and involves pushing buttons, as you will see), and one more recently discovered with the aid of a video editor and a NinDB user with a penchant for earworms.

If you thought that Sega stopped making consoles after Dreamcast you were right. And also a little wrong.

Vinnk travels to Mangasouko, a "recycle shop" a few train stops down from where he lives in Japan. This shop sells all kind of used things but the second floor is all retro games, comics, toys, etc. This is the Famicom Section. There are a few informational errors since Vinnk only made one take but please enjoy seeing the interior of a shop that still values the Famicom. The first rack of games are the ones deemed most popular and best selling. Beyond that rack all the games are in Hiragana order (Vinnk mistakenly said Katakana in the video).

Last time on Famicom Dojo on the Go, Vinnk visited a thriving retro game store that was in the process of expanding. This week he explores a type of store that is (sadly) a lot more common these days: a store with retro on the decline. This shop used to have a very large retro section but since the last time Vinnk visited about 3 years ago the store has relegated all its retro items to a single rack. If he visits again next year there probably won't be any retro games at all. He did however manage to find a bit of a treasure: the N64 Bio Sensor. After doing a bit of research, Vinnk found that it worked with the game Tetris 64, and clipped onto a gamer's ear to measure heart rate. WHY? We may never know...

Vinnk visits a Guru Guru Anpanman machine, and gets a sweet card. And his daughter really likes it.

This thin cartridge is the predecessor to the HuCards found in Hudson Soft's PC Engine and TurboGrafix-16 consoles. Made for the MSX in Japan, Hudson cut its teeth on these kinds of peripherals at the same time Sega was making a similar technology -- MyCards -- for their SG-1000 series of video game consoles. Both required an intermediary cartridge to play on the intended systems. BeeCards worked with BeePaks, while MyCards worked with the Card Catcher, or plugged in directly to the Sega Mark III and Sega Master System.

Vinnk plays a crane game in Akihabara, trying to "catch" a copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 for Famicom.

Outside a store in Aru Aru City, Japan, something you'd probably not see in many other countries. While out shopping a few weeks ago, Vinnk saw a mini idol concert suddenly spring up, complete with a (very) small group of die-hard fans that seemed to materialize out of nowhere.

Hiro plays against Vinnk's daughter in a fight to the virtual death! We named our retro review series Famicom Dojo after a small used game shop in Japan. Like many of the consoles and games we cover in these videos, the Famicom Dojo itself is a relic of the past: a literal "mom and pop" game store. While he is the face of Famicom Dojo, and has even appeared on this channel a few times, Hiro's mother is the real owner; even though she's in her 80s she and can still be seen cleaning game connectors with q-tips every day. She will also give Vinnk's daughter candies whenever they go into the store. Recently, when she saw Vinnk's daughter, she ran behind the counter and happily produced a Sailor Moon game for the Super Famicom. She was sure his daughter would be familiar with the series, even though Sailor Moon stopped airing in Japan a good decade before she was born. Still, she was right! Vinnk's daughter definitely wanted to play. This video is the result.

The NES tries to give the Famicom a gift for his 30th birthday, only to discover yet another shocking Famicom Family secret!

Hudson Soft may have gone to Konami, but Bomberman lives on. In arcades. Sort of.

Japanese gamers take much better care of their games and systems than US gamers do. Sometimes you'll even find little extras hidden inside the case, like Vinnk did with this copy of Super Rambo for MSX.

The Super Mario Bros. Minus World is very real! You can get there in three easy steps, and we will show you how. However, far from being a deliberately-created "secret level" the truth of its existence is actually much stranger. Plus, there's not just one! We show you how to get to them without hacks or emulators (Virtual Console notwithstanding) with our foolproof techniques.

In Japan, Famicom cartridges varied in style far more than NES games did. Irem developed a particularly distinct style with its cream-colored cartridges and embedded LED beneath their logo, which glowed when the system power was turned on.

Vinnk sent Sean a boxed MSX 2! We show you the unboxing, and compare an original MSX version of King's Knight to the NES version.

Somehow, Vinnk found a boxed Satellaview. These beasts are rare, since when the satellite service shut down you could essentially send it back for a refund: but only if you sent back EVERYTHING.

Sean and Vinnk show you how to tap a koopa shell in level 3-1 of Super Mario Bros. so that you can get, like, a gajillion extra lives.

Famicom Disk System collecting is a double-edged sword. No, that's not a floppy disk joke. Wait... yes it was. Floppy disks degrade over time, so it's a good idea to keep checking your disk collection periodically. But equally as troubling is making sure that you are actually getting what you think you're paying for...

Let's Play Game. Everybody Gets Fun.

Two years after finding a complete, boxed Family Trainer in Akihabara, Vinnk has sent Sean the last pieces of his Family Trainer Collection. Watch Sean attempt to play the latest three games without the aid of an instruction manual: Takeshi's Castle, Takeshi's Castle 2, and Baby Kyonshi.

Konami released an arcade game by the name of Track and Field, and then a sequel called Hyper Olympic '84. Both were ported to consoles in various forms, but on the MSX they were known as Hyper Olympic 1 and 2, and Hyper Sports 1, 2, and 3 (respectively-ish) -- including the Hammer Throw, which was never seen on the Famicom/NES version.

Ever since seeing JewWario's review, Sean has wanted his own copy of Super Back to the Future Part II for the Super Famicom. Vinnk finally delivers! Sean explains some of the history of the game, and reviews the first level as compared to contemporary Back to the Future games.

We're back in 2015 to answer your questions (well, ours, really) about the existence of Back to the Future Part III on the NES Part II & III cartridge. We're not even sure if any human being alive has even gotten to Part III through legitimate means, so unless you want to be the first we recommend using this quick trick to enter the warp code to take you there.

We've gone back to the Famicom well to do our most comprehensive review of the hardware yet. If you were tired of watching three or four different videos for this information, and always wanted to know just WHY you have to tune a North American TV to such bizarre channels to get an RF signal to work properly, then this is is the video for you.

If you're bored of making the game glitch out by playing too many levels after you pointed your Zapper at a lightbulb and pulled the trigger for untold hours, you can try this trick instead for a challenge in this classic NES game. Phil Bond takes time out of his busy Sherlock-watching schedule to help us out. And by us we mean... well, just watch.

A lot has changed for the Wii since the Wii U launched, making it even more appealing than ever to transfer your Wii Identity to your Wii U. But the process is not without its perils. Find out what you have to know to make your transition as smooth as possible, and what you'll be giving up once you do.

Vinnk has a problem. To be fair, it's a problem that some game publishers hope their customers have. Vinnk has bought several inconsequential variations of a handful of games for no other reason than to have them. But sometimes you find something so strange that you have to keep collecting in hopes that you'll solve a mystery.

It's about time Sean sent something to Vinnk! In Japan, Vinnk has a very particular problem with Nintendo hardware: the 3DS and Wii U are the only consoles that are still region-locked. Will Vinnk be able to join the rest of the English-speaking gaming world now?

Vinnk packages up some bite-sized videos that were originally (timed) exclusives for our Facebook page, but have now been presented to you here for the omnoms.

We reveal the mystery behind the NES Programmable Series of games, and how their Japanese Famicom counterparts were able to save data with the aid of the Family Keyboard and Famicom Data Recorder. We also demonstrate alternatives to using this technology, as well as run down the contemporary ports that don't require additional hardware to use all of the game features.

The TurboFile by ASCII Corporation is an off-cartridge storage device developed at a time when the Famicom Disk System was not yet released, and battery backup cartridges were still too expensive to produce. It could only save one game at a time, and there way no way to know which game it was if you owned several that were compatible, but that didn't stop ASCII from making several variations -- not only for the Famicom, but other consoles as well. We didn't have one when we did our review of the Famicom Data Recorder, but supposedly it is compatible with Castle Excellent. Is that true? We find out!

Cartridges get dirty. What's the best way to get them clean? Famicom Dojo has the answers! Blowing on cartridge contacts as a way to remove dirt and grime is a 30 year habit that some of us still can't quite seem to break. This will actually damage not only your games but your consoles in the long run. Use this method to clean your games, rather than corrode your collection.

Vinnk hasn't been to a retro shop in the US for a long time. So much is different. Cartridges are the wrong size and color. There are no Sega Saturn games to speak of. And he can run into people he knows... and they speak English!

Vinnk sends Sean a Famicom modded with AV outputs, but did Sean get exactly what he thought he was getting? We compare the video output of different Famicom systems using our trust Mother cartridge (or Earthbound Beginnings, as it's now known on Wii U Virtual Console). There were some other cool things in the box, but you'll just have to watch to find out what they are!

At the last MAGFest he attended, Sean played a game called Parodius on the original Game Boy. Turns out it's an entire series of games that released several versions on many different consoles. Parodius Da! for Famicom and Game Boy is just one of many. Check out a couple of the side-scrolling shooters that these games parody, and watch Sean try (and fail) to play Parodius itself!

While perhaps the best-known title to come out of the series was River City Ransom (as it was known on the NES), Technos created several Kunio-kun games over the life of the Famicom. Here are just a few of them, how they came over to the US, and the peripherals they supported on the Famicom that we totally promise we will review more in-depth eventually.

Famicom Friday is a day when we explore a video game we've never played before, and give you our thoughts about what we've just experienced. It's a great way to get through our Pile of Shame! This week we're pulling one from the That's Orange archives to bring to Famicom Dojo for the first time: NES Remix. This game is nearly two years old now, but Sean's thoughts about it still stand.

When Sean went out west last summer, he found a PlayChoice-10 arcade at Ground Kontrol. The arcade had Super Mario Bros., and since we had just released our Minus Worlds video the year before, he knew exactly what he had to do...

On Famicom Friday, we explore a video game we've never played before, and may be new to you! After talking about it on the Famicom Dojo podcast, Sean decided to seek out a copy of Time Lord... and play it!

In our last Dojo Snacks, viewers challenged Vinnk to look up another game with full voice recordings as part of its sound. But does Star Ocean truly hold what he seeks?

Life imitates Art at Space World.

Not to be confused with Space World, Vinnk hits up a new, enormous arcade. Fans of the podcast will note some sights that we've discussed recently, plus a (very) brief look at some pre-Famicom Dojo days!

Vinnk took his daughters to Famicom Dojo while his wife and new son were napping. So he could feel that he was doing something a bit more educational than just having them play games he tried the educational title Sansuu 1 Nen: Keisan Game (算数１年　けいさんゲーム) which is a math game made for 1st graders (in Japan that is ages 6-7). It was actually pretty fun despite some convoluted control. But when Hiro suggests that we try the 4th grade level game (Sansuu 4 Nen: Keisan Game (算数4年　けいさんゲーム), that’s when it gets crazy.

Vinnk is back at the Famicom Dojo shop for his very first Famicom Friday (also the first about an actual Famicom game). After getting briefly distracted by a square-button Famicom (more on that in another video), and the voiced intro to Tenka no Goikenban: Mito Koumon (水戸黄門 天下の御意見番), he settles on Tsuppari Ōzumō (つっぱり大相撲) a wacky sumo wrestling game. No sumo games have ever been localized for the NES, so Vinnk is going to explore whether or not that is a good thing.

Mysterious Murasame Castle has been on the 3DS Virtual Console in North America for almost two years now (August 7, 2014), but back when the release was announced, Sean finally cracked open his Famicom Disk System copy that had lain dormant for eight years, and finally played it for the first time!

Sean got a new box of stuff from Vinnk, and one of the precious cargo inside was a Famicom Robot Amiibo! We explore what, if anything, makes it different from the NES-colored R.O.B. Amiibo released in North America.

Vinnk made another trip to the Famicom Dojo shop to dig out some treasures. He found an interesting 3-in-1 Super Famicom pirate cartridge with Wildsnake, Super Punch-Out!!, and NBA Live '95. But how can that be? Super Punch-Out!! was never released on a standard Super Famicom cart.

Not many peripherals warrant a sequel, but the Super Game Boy is an interesting exception. The Super Game Boy 2 was released in 1998, extremely late in the Super Famicom's lifecycle. We take a deep dive into its features, why it was released, and what's so special about it compared to the original cartridge.

About 2 years ago, Vinnk purchased a strange controller and a Super Famicom Modem by NTT (スーパーファミコン専用 通信モデム [NDM24]) but just recently he found some software to actually use it, a “game” called JRA PAT (Japan Racing Association Personal Access Terminal). Vinnk explorers this rare and mostly forgotten peripheral, and discovers some interesting facts about it.

After several months, and lots of orange tape, Sean finally got his own Famicom Light Gun! We give a quick overview of the peripheral, and try it out on a GUN SIGHT — otherwise known as Laser Invasion on the NES.

We may have missed a few details in our previous Stuff Vinnk Sent Me video about the Super Game Boy 2, and/or lacked the hardware to answer the most common viewer question: do two Super Game Boy 2 cartridges work when linked together? The answer on this episode of Famicom Denshimail!

Vinnk liked to joke that our kids would one day take over Famicom Dojo. But at six years old, Sara was ready to make her first YouTube video. Welcome to Sara Plays Mario Paint on Famicom Dojo!

Pokemon Stadium on the N64 is Sara's current favorite game. This is not the game that was released in the US, which was actually the Japanese Pokemon Stadium 2, so there is a good chance you haven't seen this game before. We hope you enjoy her video!

Vinnk spent all of 1000 yen ($10, batteries included) for unboxing and gameplay footage from three randim rip-off game systems.

Sean explores the depths of the TARDIS -- or rather, a version of it from the LEGO Dimensions Doctor Who Level Pack, starring Peter Calapdi. Current TV show cannon establishes that the each TARDIS Console room is stored like a "desktop theme", and can be recalled at any time. This game is no different!

Nintendo Switch day was also Vinnk's birthday! So his family decided to top themselves from last year, and threw Vinnk a Switch-themed birthday party.

On March 3, 2017, Sean waited in line at Best Buy for his new Nintendo Swtich. Vinnk ordered his from Amazon Japan. Sean got to set his up right away that night at Phil Bond's place, while Vinnk... Join us for our third Nintendo Launch Day special, where we unbox and give our first impressions of the Nintendo Switch! SeanOrange is a retro game fan from the US. Vinnk is a retro import fan who took things one step further and moved to Japan. Together they make Famicom Dojo: a web series dedicated exploring the Japanese history of video games and consoles from the other side of the Pacific.

It's taken a few months, but between Midwest Gaming Classic and scouring some retro gaming stores, Sean has put together an "instant" Nintendo Entertainment System collection for a friend... who makes a surprise visit to Sean's house! Also, how to quickly re-case an NES that has seen better days.